laptops and cron maintenance

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Fred New wrote:

>On 20. aprill 2005. a. 10:10, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>  
>
>>There are many possible solutions in theory.
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>><5 good suggestions snipped>
>>
>>I'm sure others might have additional suggestions.  Feel free
>>to comment on mine.
>>    
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>
>I think the problem is most visible to people like me who
>turn off our systems when we aren't using them.  Perhaps
>there could be a "slow shutdown" that would tell anacron to
>run things like updatedb and prelink before shutting down.
>The user would choose whether to "shutdown now" or "shutdown
>after running maintenance utilities".  Checking whether the
>system is using battery power could also be part of this
>slow shutdown.
>

fast-boot, early-gdm-login, slow-shutdown, fast-shutdown, ...
please do not confuse the users.
please let the systems boot and shutdown in a anciently but truthful manner.


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shrek-m